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The Obama administration’s top Pentagon lawyer on Wednesday said that American citizens who join Al Qaeda can be targeted for killing and that courts should have no role in reviewing executive branch decisions about whether someone has met such criteria.
Klar, wo kämen wir da hin, wenn die Exekutive sich von Gerichten hinterfragen lassen müsste! Chaos! Anarchie!!1!“Belligerents who also happen to be U.S. citizens do not enjoy immunity where non-citizen belligerents are valid military objectives,” said Jeh C. Johnson, the Defense Department general counsel, in a speech at Yale Law School.
Oh, "Belligerents" ist das neue "Combatants"! Es ist sehr erleuchtend, sich auf Wikipedia über die genaue Wortbedeutung zu informieren:A belligerent is an individual, group, country or other entity which acts in a hostile manner, such as engaging in combat. Belligerent comes from Latin, literally meaning "to wage war". Unlike the colloquial use of belligerent to mean aggressive, its formal use does not necessarily imply that the belligerent country is an aggressor.
Mit anderen Worten: auch jemand, der sich selbst verteidigt, ist ein "Belligerent".